Exploding torpedo.



N0. 633,6I5. Patented Sept. 26, I899.

J. SCALONA. EXPLJDING TORPEDU.

(Application filed July 18, 1899 (No Model.)

NlTED Y .Josnrn SCALONA, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

EXPLODING TORPED'O.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,615, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed July 13, 1899- Serial No. 723,697. (N0 model-l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SCALONA, a subject of the King of Italy, residing in the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Exploding Torpedoes, of which the following is a specification.

.My invention relates to a torpedo in which the exploding or detonating compound of the same is inclosed or enveloped in a paper or other similar sack or pack, and associated with the exploding or detonatiug compound of such sack or pack are small metal chainlinks or a chaininstead of pebbles or the like to produce by friction of the chain-links or chain with the detonating or exploding compound a report in the percussion thereof.

The principal object of my present invention is to provide a torpedo adapted to 'be safely used and free from spontaneous combustion, and, moreover, one in which the effective quality of the same is preserved for an indefinite length of time, and a torpedo in which chain-links or a small metal chain is employed as a means adapted by friction of the same with a detonating or exploding compound to produce by a percussive action an explodingof the torpedo to give off a more or less loud report and without the dangers and stinging effects incident to the use of small pebbles in torpedoes along with detonatingor exploding compounds for producing reports in the setting 01f of the same.

My invention, stated in general terms, consists of a torpedo when constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

tion; and Fig. 2 is-a vertical sectional view, enlarged, on the line 5000 of Fig. 1, through the torpedo of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, A in Fig. 1 represents the complete torpedo in one form or type of the same and consisting of a coil (1, of pasteboard or other material, to form the pack or sack of the article, around which is rolled paper or the like I), the ends I) and 1' of which are tucked into the coil. \Vithin the coil is mounted a suitable detonating or exploding compound 0, and associated with the compound, in and about the same within the coil a, are metal chain-links or a chain (Z to cause by the friction of the links or chains with the said compound in the percussive action of the article an exploding of the whole confined mass accompanied by a loud report and without the danger from the chain-links or chains in such percussion of the article that are incident to the use of several pebbles in flying about or scattering in the setting off of a torpedo with such small particles therein. In some instances the coil, as illustrated, after being. filled with a detonating or exploding compound 0 and with the chain-links or chains (Z commingled therewith and having the ends of the surrounding paper or the like on the exterior of the'coil a tucked in at'the ends I) and b of the coil, may be wrapped with twine e in different directions around the pack or sack before the final tin or other type of foil f is applied to the package for completing the same for use. Again, the pack or sack may be composed wholly of paper, with the detonating or exploding compound 0 made into caps or thin capsules associated with the chain-links or chains enveloped in the paper for by friction and a percussive action exploding the compound.

It will thus be observed from the foregoing description and explanations that my invention is susceptible of modifications as to the form put up for use, and hence Iv do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form of the torpedo illustrated and described, but claim as of my invention the use, with a detonating or exploding compound put up in any form, of chain-links or a chain as a means to aid by percussive or other similar actions the exploding with a report of the said compound or powder. 4

Having thus described the nature and object of my invent-ion, What I claim as new,

5 and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A torpedo, composed of a detonating or exploding eompound'havingassociated therewith chain-links or chains, substantially as and for the purposes described.

10 2. Atorpedo, composed of a detonating or exploding compound inclosed in a sack or pack with chain-links or a chain and adapted by friction of the same with the compound to readily permit of a percussion of said compound, substantially as and for the purposes I 5 described.

A torpedo, composed of a deto nating or exploding compound formed into a sack or pack with chain-links or achain associated therewith, and bound together, substantially 20 as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.-

JOSEPH SOALONA.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, J. JUooLUooI. 

